An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a peculiar merger of two similar ring galaxies that ...

A groundbreaking discovery has emerged from a recent study led by astronomers from Tsinghua University in Beijing. The ...

The armed galaxy's lance is a quasar, a portmanteau for "quasi-stellar object." "We hence call this system the 'cosmic joust,'" said Pasquier Noterdaeme, one of the researchers from the Institut d ...

Learn how scientists found the universe's missing matter hiding in a massive cosmic filament stretching 23.5 million ...

The galaxy known to observers as NGC 2566 is located in the constellation Puppis and features stars in the formation of spiral arms and a disk, giving it the appearance of a cosmic eye gazing ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

Proving that sometimes it's not what you look at in the night sky that matters but how you look at it, the new image somewhat resembles a cosmic face. The two galaxy cores become its bright "eyes ...

New research shows galaxies bursting with stars for the first time—offering rare insight into how the Milky Way began.

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

Not only did the new observations show how a cosmic collision helps a quasar light up, it also revealed that the quasar can be a weapon of mass destruction, snuffing out another galaxy's ability ...